Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger is best-known in the United States for his lurid monster designs, most notably the psycho-sexual nightmare creatures featured in Alien and Species. But there’s a lot more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. H.R. Giger poses with a prototype of his Xenomorph design for 'Alien.' The artist hoped to feature translucent version of the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Giger rose to prominence in Zurich with a series of posters and paintings that intertwined ...

Trying to introduce the subject of a man who needs no introduction is difficult, so we'll keep things simple: the man who designed the alien for Ridley Scott's seminal movie is, tragically, dead. HR ...

Surrealist artist H.R. Giger - one of the driving creative forces between 1979's Alien - died today in Zurich after complications from a fall. A 2010 interview published by Wired traced Giger's ...

Cult artist H.R. Giger was a big deal right after ALIEN was released in 1979. All of my friends ran out and bought his books Necronomicon and Giger’s Alien. His “biomechanical” designs had the ...

The Oscar-winning Swiss set and creature designer of Ridley Scott's "Alien" died following a fall in his Zurich home. By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R.